Re: X.org plans for the squeeze cycle
David Nusinow wrote:
> Julien Cristau wrote:
>> [other xsf members, feel free to chime in if I'm forgetting something or
>> saying something stupid :)]
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 14:41:24 +0200, Marc Brockschmidt wrote:
>>
>>
>>> * Which major upstream releases of X.org are expected in the next two
>>> years? Which of those are material for Debian stable, which might
>>> be a bit
>>> flaky?
>>>
>>>
>> X.org release management is notoriously pretty bad. Releases often slip
>> by months, and bugs in .0 server releases aren't unheard of. See also
>> http://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2009-release_engineering/mgp00009.html
>>
>>
>> Anyway, there's no schedule for 1.7 to my knowledge, let alone for the
>> subsequent releases. I'd guess server 1.7 (and X.Org 7.5) will come
>> before the end of the year, though, so that seems like a good candidate
>> for a squeeze release in 2010.
>>
>
> My main worry for 1.7 is that it probably won't give us a lot of time to
> shake bugs out of XKB2. We're not historically very good at dealing with
> the guts of the input system anyway, and that XKB2 won't provide any
> immediate user-visible changes that seem to make it a must have (if I'm
> wrong here, please correct me!) On the other hand, with the 1.6 servers
> we finally have a stable input system again, so my sense is that we
> should probably be conservative and go with the 1.6 branches for squeeze
> given our short time frame.
Upstream just announced that they won't be including XKB2 in this
release after all, since it needs some more time to cook. Given that, I
think we should shoot for 1.7 and any further useful patches for squeeze.
- David Nusinow
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